Canadian Partners

The Canadian Centre on Disability Studies (CCDS) is  leading the project fulfilling overall project management and reporting responsibilities as well as providing expertise in the areas of civil society development, disability issues, inclusion, partnership, human rights, and culture. The Centre will also be specifically responsible for completing all objectives and activities associated with the civil society component of the project, and in partnership with Grant MacEwan University, Edmonton, complete the objectives and activities associated with the policy component.

The Centre will work within a partnership that already exists with the University of Manitoba (Faculties of Social Work and Education), University of Winnipeg, and the Province of Manitoba, and build on the some of the partnerships from the previous project in Ukraine (for details of this project, refer to Section V). The Government of Manitoba Department of Family Services and Housing and Department of Education, Citizenship and Youth will be involved in the project as well as the Association of Parents of Disabled Children and Manitoba Parents for Ukrainian Education.

The Canada - Ukraine Research Team (CURT), headed by the Ukrainian Resource and Development Centre (URDC), Grant MacEwan University in Edmonton, Alberta, will lead the learning institutions component of the project. This network is comprised of over a dozen specialists in inclusive education and involves faculty from MacEwan’s Disability Studies and Special Education Assistant programs. CURT also includes faculty from the University of Alberta (Department of Education Psychology; the Western Canadian Centre for Studies in Deafness) and doctoral researchers from the Institute of Special Pedagogy, Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine. In Edmonton, the partners include Alberta Education and a number of NGOs (e.g. Canada Ukraine Alliance for Deaf and Hard of Hearing) and community organizations interested in supporting this project.